Student embarks on service trip to Jamaica

Volunteers paint house, help at schools

10:14 PM,
Feb. 12, 2014

Written by

Journal staff

In January, a team of Misericordia University students including Sarah-Abby Richard of Pine Plains went on a seven-day service-learning trip to Cross Keys, Manchester Parish, a rural community about an hour and a half drive from Kingston, Jamaica.

During their seven-day mission, the group cleaned and painted a home that lacked running water, a kitchen or bathroom, and housed as many as 20 occupants, many of them children. They also volunteered at a home for the elderly, a parish school and a school for delinquent boys.